Alaska Land Mobile Radio

Project Brief

The Alaska Land Mobile Radio (ALMR) Communications System is an independent radio network for emergency responders in Alaska during critical emergencies like the November 30, 2018 earthquake near Anchorage. ALMR consists of 86 dedicated wireless radio communication sites along Alaska’s highways, marine highway, and remote mountaintops. It is a cooperative effort between federal (both DOD and non-DOD, state, and local governments and tribal entities serving 20,000 subscribers. ALMR serves 156,600 of Alaska’s total 663,267 square miles, providing secure communications separated from traditional telecommunications systems, essential for emergency response. ALMR is supported by an interagency user council and an executive council. ALMR Provides Alaskan public safety first responders with interoperable communications that are cost effective, reliable, and adhere to national standards for public safety land mobile radio.

Wostmann, in partnership with 5 Star Team, oversees the use, governance, membership, and maintenance of the Alaska Land Mobile Radio (ALMR) system.  Our team serves as the Operations Management Office providing management, technical and administrative staff to perform day-to-day administration, coordination, outreach, user training, system maintenance oversight, performance measurement, quality assurance and long-term technology planning and support. We ensure continuous system security and availability, develop standard operating procedures, and regularly work with members to use the system successfully.  

The ALMR website contains public information on the system including the Insider Newsletters.

Deliverables

  • System designed to meet 99.999 percent availability

  • Standard operating procedures

  • Website updates

  • Newsletter

  • Council reports

  • Project Documentation

Related Work

State and Local Contracts

Wostmann & Associates has more than 25 years experience in state government technology projects. We have supported the State of Alaska in a variety of initiatives, from website and reporting systems to complex integration and enterprise systems and we welcome opportunities to any state with our experienced, senior technology professionals. We often perform our government services via our joint-venture partnership, Alaska IT Group, which combines our services with those of other leading small technology firms. Wostmann and Alaska IT Group are registered in Alaska for several IT service categories listed below. State agencies and local governments may utilize the Alaska Task Order Procurement System (TOPS) for our services or may contact us directly for more information.

  • Cat 2: Mid-range Systems Support

  • Cat 3: Specialized Server and Middleware Administration

  • Cat 4: Data Center Consulting

  • Cat 5: Security Consulting

  • Cat 6: IT Management Consulting

  • Cat 7: IT Procurement and Grant Services

  • Cat 8: OS390 and Z/OS Mainframe Applications Programming Support

  • Cat 9: Distributed Application Analysis, Design and Programming

  • Cat 10: Document Management

  • Cat 12: Project Management

  • Cat 13: Quality Assurance